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This is dumb. I would bet there's nobody in the world except a couple of rappers and a few dozen terrorists would even have considered the possiblity that people would coordinate an attack by hijacking 4 (5? 6? 7?) planes at the same time and flying them into prominent buildings.

You haven't been paying attention. Ramzi Yusef was caught with the plans to hijack planes and crash them into CIA HQ, Sears Tower, the Pentagon, Capitol building, White House, Transamerica tower, and the WTC. Khaled Sheik Muhammad was the other plotter, you might have heard of him.

Heres a good reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Bojinka

Hmmm,

There were literally hundreds of "clues" in hindsite...but that is part of the problem. We had intel that said they would do this on Christmas Day of 2000, on News Years Day of 2001, on Memorial Day, on July 4th, on Labor Day, ect. We also had good intel that indicated over 8000 different targets were being looked at by terrorists groups. If dozens of targets are indicated every day, what do you do...shut down the entire US. Rice did not blow this. Way too many conspiracy theorists (sp?) with way too much time on their hands.

Could we have done better? Sure, we can always do better when you look backward. And we should make fixes. But that is a far cry from saying any adminsitration caused this to happen, or even permitted it to happen due to incompetence.

The one thing that needed to improve was the communication between intel organizations, but that had been a problem for decades, and not a unique Bush Administration problem...he clearly had not had time to fix that one in under 8 months. Good grief, if I remember right he was still trying to get his cabinet confirmed.